From AOL today

WASHINGTON -- A six-year-old memo from within the George W. Bush administration that came to light this week acknowledges that White House-approved interrogation techniques amounted to "war crimes."
The Bush White House tried to destroy every copy of the memo, written by then-State Department counselor Philip Zelikow. Zelikow examined tactics like waterboarding -- and other methods of torture -- and concluded that there was no way they were legal, domestically or internationally, SO Bush, to avoid prosecution as a war criminal, got his Texas lackey henchman Alberto Gonzales to OK torture, for the first time in the history of the US, but 'only' if conventional techniques didn't work. Just another step down the ladder as the US lost it's moral high ground, and economic leadership, under GWBush.